Indian Steel

Japanese: インド鋼 - いんどこう
Indian Steel

...It is said that the technique of melting and smelting iron ore in a crucible to make cast steel was used there from an early stage. Regardless of the truth of the story, it is said that a 15kg block of Indian steel was presented to Alexander the Great, who invaded India in the latter half of the last century, and this tells us the antiquity of Indian cast steel. Indian steel was exported to Damascus via Persia from ancient times, where it was processed into "Damascus steel" and became famous. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Indian steel" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこではるつぼ法で鉄鉱石を溶解製錬して鋳鋼にする技術が早くから行われたとされている。前世紀後半インドに遠征したアレクサンドロス大王に重さ15kgのインド鋼塊が献上されたと伝えられるのも事の真偽はともかくインド鋳鋼の古さを物語るものであろう。インド産の鋼鉄は古くからペルシアを経てダマスクスへ輸出され,そこで〈ダマスクス鋼〉として加工され,名声をはせた。…

※「インド鋼」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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